Senior Software Engineer

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Backend · Software Engineering

In short

Spotify is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for its Authorization team in Toronto to design, build, and operate scalable backend services for authorization, permissions, and team management. This role requires strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with Java, and experience with distributed, high-scale systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.
Take ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.
Evolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
Improve the systems and workflows that enable creators to gain access to their content, profiles, and teams.
Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs, balancing long-term architecture with solutions that meet current product and business needs.
Partner with engineers and cross-functional collaborators across Spotify to understand authorization needs and build reusable platform capabilities.
Contribute to frontend experiences and data-related work when useful, while bringing deep expertise and leadership to backend engineering.
Raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, design discussions, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across the team.

Requirements

Deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.
Experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.
Experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.
Ability to reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the impact of technical decisions across a broader platform.
Experience working in a product-driven environment and connecting technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
Pragmatic engineering trade-offs and knowing when a simpler solution is more valuable than unnecessary technical complexity.
Effective collaboration within and across teams, sharing context and helping others make better technical decisions.
Comfortable contributing across the stack when needed, with strongest expertise in backend engineering.
Adaptability to evolving requirements and systems, approaching change with curiosity and sound technical judgment.

Benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Skills

Java

#Backend#Engineering#Platform#Authorization#Permissions#Scalability#Reliability#Performance#Security

About Spotify

Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers…

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